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mac-screen-search: CLI find, highlight, redact text on screen, in files
Screen OCR search with redaction in a single Swift CLI—no dependencies beyond macOS.
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Open-source time tracking using screenshots
by jzapletal·Feb 14, 2026·4 points·3 comments
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The Take
Screenshots are summarized and OCR'd by configurable model endpoints (managed OpenRouter key or BYO/local Ollama) and only short text snippets are kept in a local SQLite DB — neat engineering to convert raw screen noise into searchable memory. The managed-key option lowers onboarding friction, but shipping images off-device by default is a real privacy tradeoff users should weigh. Practical, clever, and clearly built with real usage (timesheets, resume-of-work queries) in mind.
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Knowledge workers, developers, freelancers and teams who need automated time tracking, searchable activity history, or richer context for AI assistants
Post Description
We built a desktop app that screenshots your screen periodically, runs it through a vision model, and stores the context locally. Then it pipes everything into your AI tools via MCP.
Most people we showed it to started using it to generate timesheets.
Any ideas for what else this could do are welcome!
Website: https://trymemorylane.com/
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